You Can Teach a Young Dog New Tricks!

Check it out, we taught Tucker a new trick!! He can dance!

And this one! Look at him go!!



Now isn't that the coolest dog ever!? Merry Christmas to all and to all a GOOD NIGHT!

Meet The Tucker Pup - Live! (2 months old)

Testing our flip video camera! This is an old video we took of our puppy Tucker when we first got the video camera.

Invitation Extravaganza!!

My sweet David has been working very hard these last couple of weeks on a special project. When we were engaged he wrote a program that would help us to easily organize and send out our wedding invitations ourselves. Since my sister, Ashley, is now engaged David has been spending a lot of time perfecting this wonderful tool. It is now online and easy to use at no charge :)

All one would have to do to begin using it:
1. visit www.dearprime.com
2. create a new account
3. Click on "Directory" to begin adding contact info
4. Click "Events" to add a new event (wedding, baby shower, birthday party, etc.)
5.Click "Hosts" to add the hosts of the event
6.Click "Activities" to add smaller events inside a large event (wedding ceremony, reception bridal shower, etc.)
7. Click guests to invite certain people in your directory to each activity

It's a really neat program, soon it will have an option to print the addresses out on labels right from your home computer. We would love for all of you to mess around with it and give us feedback and any suggestions to improve the site. It was a life saver while planning our wedding and i hope it will be convenient for others to use as well.

We Love you all!

That CAN'T be very comfortable!

I happened to look outside while Tucker was taking one of his puppy naps and figured out that his dream must be to be the first contortionist dog. Scary right? I know! Anyway he's a silly puppy that keeps us on our toes. We love him most of the time :)

A Higher Calling

So Dave and I have lived in our new ward boundaries for almost a month and a half. I thought we were smooth sailing considering the other 8 new families that moved into the ward around the same time we did. Well we hadn't been forgotten, they asked us to speak in church 2 weeks ago and that wasn't as bad as i had thought it would be.

Today during Sunday School we were pulled into a room and given an official calling in the ward. David and I were called to be Nursery Leaders! YEA! I've wanted to work in the nursery for a long time. We don't have children yet so we are both totally looking forward to the interaction we'll have with the children and the best part is that we only have them for 2 hours every week :) We play and wear them out then send them home :) David will now have an excuse to bring snacks to church and I'll get to teach fun simple lessons like "We Thank Heavenly Father for our Hands". I'm gonna have a blast coming up with activities and crafts to go along with each lesson. Yeah, nap-time IS included.

I know you are probably jealous of our awesome calling :) I'm stoked!

Captain Tucker!!

Would you like to see what terror looks like? (see below).

Would you like to see what terror looks like? (see above). ok, ok so he's almost extremely adorable! :)

Still Standing After 1 Year!

Our first wedding anniversary was on Sunday August 24. It's incredible to think that David and i have been married for a year already! It was just a few months ago that we got married, weird. But we're doing pretty good i suppose. About a month ago we moved into our new house in southern AZ. We really love it here, but we are far away from all our family and old friends. We do enjoy having our own home, for instance (as opposed to the apartment) when i measure and hang pictures on the wall i don't have to be disappointed when i have to turn around and take them down 12 months later. I can paint the walls ANY color i desire without having to repaint them white after 12 months. We don't have neighbors running up and down the hall at all hours of the day and night (like when that fight broke out right outside our front door at 3am and we had to call the police). Also having a mortgage is so much better than renting, now our money is an investment :) Hurray!

So when we moved in we had most of our back yard landscaped with rock and trees, flowers and bushes. I'm afraid that due to a new arrival to our family my plants are a bit sad. We got a puppy, Tucker, he's is a chocolate lab and is now 9 1/2 weeks old; he is full of mischief! Yesterday i caught him tearing apart and chewing my plants to bits, i was so mad at him!! He now has a cable that will not allow him to reach the plants. But i feel bad because that's no life for a puppy, to be on a constant cable without sufficient room to play. I just don't know what to do about him, as soon as i let him off he's attacking the plants (which are still quite young and small) usually within an hour. If anyone has suggestions please share them :)

Now for some good news about Tucker. We wanted him to be an outside dog, but after some consideration due to recent experiences with rattlesnakes and such, we decided that we would bring him in at night, and we are trying to crate train him. He knows the word "NO" and usually stops, at least momentarily what he was doing. He knows not to go onto the carpet, he is only allowed in the kitchen, and he does a good job at staying where he is supposed to be without the use of puppy gates. David has been quite dedicated to teaching Tucker how to sit, now the trick is getting him to stay sitting. He is adorable. LOL, when i talk to him he will sometimes cock his head to side and make a high pitched "hmmmm?" sound. It's hilarious :)

I'm frustrated because I've been trying to find somewhere to work, I've applied at a few banks that are local but nothing has come through yet. I like being at home but i would rather be helping bring home the bacon. *sigh. We are doing pretty good we just hadn't expected me to be out of work for this long. It's been a month, which was nice when we were preparing to move and get settled in, but a month is too long.

Anyway in celebration of our wedding anniversary I will upload a few pics to go with this post. Enjoy!

The photographer asks us to heel click - in a dress that weighed like 40 lbs (okay that's and exaggeration, but you understand) We did pretty good :) I got the entire dress off the ground :)